Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles (Includes Unit Operations) Fourth Edition

1.1. CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSPORT PROCESSES AND SEPARATION PROCESSES (UNIT OPERATIONS)

1.1A. Introduction

In the chemical and other physical processing industries and the food and biological processing industries, many similarities exist in the manner in which the entering feed materials are modified or processed into final materials of chemical and biological products. We can take these seemingly different chemical, physical, or biological processes and break them down into a series of separate and distinct steps that were originally called unit operations. However, the term “unit operations” has largely been superseded by the more modern and descriptive term “separation processes.” These separation processes are common to all types of diverse ...